I emerged orbited and started the init script, only to find that orbited wasn't running. A little investigation revealed this: # orbited Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/orbited", line 5, in <module> from pkg_resources import load_entry_point File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2672, in <module> working_set.require(__requires__) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 655, in require needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements)) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 553, in resolve raise DistributionNotFound(req) pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: demjson I emerged dev-python/demjson-1.4 and then orbited started working: # orbited 09/13/10 11:36:45:533 INFO orbited.start using select reactor /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/orbited/start.py:25: DeprecationWarning: listenWith is deprecated since Twisted 10.1. See IReactorFDSet. reactor.listenWith(port_class, factory=factory_class(), resource=root, childName=child_path) 09/13/10 11:36:45:866 INFO orbited.start proxy protocol active 09/13/10 11:36:45:867 INFO orbited.start Listening http@8000 09/13/10 11:36:45:868 INFO orbited.start switching to user nobody (uid=65534) and group nobody (gid=65534) Please add dev-python/demjson as a dependency of net-misc/orbited.
According to the ebuild this dependency was replaced by || ( dev-python/simplejson dev-python/demjson ). Do you have dev-python/simplejson installed? Does it solve the dependency? I assume not.
+*orbited-0.7.10-r1 (13 Sep 2010) + + 13 Sep 2010; Michael Weber <xmw@gentoo.org> +orbited-0.7.10-r1.ebuild: + Revbump to revert dev-python/demjson dependency (wrt #337098 by Neil + Skrypuch <ns03ja@brocku.ca>). +
You assume correctly, dev-python/simplejson is installed and doesn't do the trick.